2024 Day 1435: The House Ethics Committee report on Matt Gaetz found “substantial evidence” that the former congressman regularly paid women for sex, including with a 17-year-old girl, and used illegal drugs; a Senate investigation found that Justice Clarence Thomas accepted over $4.75 million in undisclosed luxury trips and gifts since 1991; Trump renewed his call for the U.S. to buy Greenland, and then suggested that the Panama Canal be returned to U.S. control; a former D.C. police officer was convicted of obstruction of justice and lying to authorities about leaking confidential information to Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio; Bill Clinton was hospitalized after developing a fever; the Senate confirmed Biden’s 235th judicial appointee; Biden commuted the sentences of 37 federal death row inmates to life without parole; Biden withdrew proposed rules to improve access to contraception; Biden vetoed a bipartisan bill to create 66 new federal judge positions to, in part, prevent Trump from further influencing the judiciary; and Biden signed a government funding bill on Saturday, to avert a shutdown after Congress passed the spending plan. Dec 24, 2024